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kess

French, contraction

kess is spelled K-E-S-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kess is a French contraction meaning “contraction of qu'est-ce que” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does kess mean in English?

contraction

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    Quebeccolloquialcontraction of qu'est-ce que

    Kess tu veux?

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common is kess in French?

kess appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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